Operating Systems
Research team
Iosif Ignat, Adrian Colesa, Adrian Ivanov, Marius Joldos, Kinga Marton
Research fields
- Operating Systems
- Computer Programming
- Data Security
Recent research project
“Developing New Strategies of Flexible Organization and Fast Search of Data in File Systems”, national research grant funded by CNCSIS, A-24/2007, (2007).
I. Ignat project manager, A. Colesa, A. Ivanov, M. Joldos.
Publications
A.Colesa, I. Ignat, Z. Somodi, “Sisteme de operare. Chestiuni teoretice si practice”, U. T. Press, Cluj-Napoca, 2007.
I. Ignat, C. L. Ignat, “Structuri de date si algoritmi”, Editura Albastra, Cluj-Napoca, 2007.
A. Colesa, V. Balde, I. Ignat, “An Indirect Hotswapping System for Linux Kernel Modules”, in Proceedings of IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent
Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Sept. 6-8, 2007, pp. 201-208.
A. Colesa, V. Cionca, A. Tata, I. Ignat, “A Meta-Data Enhanced File System”, Proceedings of IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Sept. 6-8, 2007, pp. 267-270.
E. Kovacs, I. Ignat, “Reduct equivalent rule induction based on rough set theory”, Proceedings of IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Sept. 6-8, 2007 , pp. 9-15.
B. Gyenge, I. Ignat, “Verifying the independence of security protocols”, Proceedings of IEEE 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Sept. 6-8 , 2007, pp. 155-162.
K. Marton, A. Colesa, G. Linda, “Grid-based Distributed Linda System”, in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania, September 26-29, 2007, (to be published).
A. Colesa, T. Pop, I. Ignat, C. Ardelean, “Automatic and Reliable Distribution of Data in Grids over Globus Toolkit”, in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing, Timisoara, Romania, September 26-29, 2007, (to be published).
M.Dinsoreanu, I.Ignat, “Applying software reuse and pattern oriented architectures in a multimedia messaging system”, WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications, vol. 1, no. 11, pp. 2223-30, 2006.
B.Gyenge, I.Ignat, “A typed specification for security protocols”, in Proceedings of the 5-th WSEAS International. Conference. on Data Networks Communications.& Computers, Bucharest, Romania, Oct. 16-17, 2006, pp.113-118.
A.Colesa, I.Ignat, R.Oprita, “Providing High Data Availability in medioGRID”, in Proceedings of the I.E.E.E. Eighth International. Simposion .on Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing SYNASC 2006, Timisoara, Romania, Sept. 26-29, 2006, pp. 296-302.
Research description
Developing New Strategies of Flexible Organization and Fast Search of Data in File Systems
We aim by this proposed project at developing an innovative file system model specialized more flexible data organization and search, compared to the traditional file systems. We want to develop for that purpose new approaches to provide the user the possibility of establishing complex file interrelationships and managing efficiently this information to support fast search of files using a natural like query language.
The hierarchical structure of the classical file systems does not provide flexibility of file organisation and search operations, especially for sets of interrelated files. Recently, more projects have tried to enhance the traditional file systems with relational database like capabilities. The resulting systems store and index additional metadata describing file contents and interrelationships into a kernel integrated database. The main problem we have noted about these systems is that they provide access to the enhanced file organisation and searching capabilities only through a new specialised system interface, thus not being compatible with the old applications. Moreover, they do not support interrelationships between sets (categories) of files.
We propose a solution to treat both files and file categories as file system elements and provide the user the possibility to establish complex relationships between these elements, expressed as new file properties. The corresponding file system we want to develop will provide the user with multiple different views on this file space and the possibility to perform efficiently complex search operations. It will provide full access to these facilities through a specialised interface using a natural like language, but also through the classical file system interface.